The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-12-02
OUR WASHINGTON LET TER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
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From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10Th, 1857.
Already l have reported to you the current
capitalgOssip concerning the Cabinet changes,
that MIR. Lamar will I've translated to the
Supreme Bench, that Postmaster General
Villas is to succeed him, and that Mr.. Dickin-
son, of Michigan, will be the latteI's success
sOr. Still another rumor is that Mr.. Whitney
expects to resign from tie Cabinet unless his
health greatly improves within the next two
months, his friends claiming that man of
the vast wealth and great social prominence
of the present Secretary of the Navy, cannot
afford to endanger his existence by further
devoting himselfto the onerous duties incum-
bent upon him.
Many New York Democrats were extreme.
ly solicitous for the President to go to his old
home at Buffalo and vote inthe late election,
and much disappointment was felt that he
did not crafty public expectation in that re-
spect. But the President had good reason
for absenting himself, as he had learned from
trustworthy sources that his presence at the
polls woulI have been the occasion of an I'M
dignitied and unseemy demons ration on the
part OF club of intensely partisan Republi.
cans, as it was their unpatriotic purpose to
challenge Mr.. Cleveland's right to vote, on
the ground that he is not now a legal resident
ofButialo. In view ofthis exposed conspiracy,
it is doubtful if Mr.. Cleveland again votes
during his Presidency, and when his motive
is understood, it will be applauded by all
unbiased minds.
Messrs. Carlisle and Randall are both in
the city, and while neither is willing to take
the public into his confidence, through the
medium of the press, it is highly probable
that these great leaders may have an infor-
IN baf,ra al e
gress, with the view OF making 1.-The two
wings of the Democracy flap together" on the
tariff question, in the language of Mr.. Ran
dali during speech in tue Forty ninth Con-
gress.
The forthcoming report of Secretary Fair
child is awaited with no ordinary degree of
interest by the financial world, as il is ex-
pected that he will take advanced ground on
the questions of the Treasury surplus, and
the silver currency. That the Secretary is
laboriously and carefully applying himself to
the important undertaking that devolves
upon HIM, is evidenced by the fact that to ac-
complish IL he has for several days confined
himself to the privacy of his home in order
not to be diverted from his work by visitors
to the Department.
The balance of power in the United States
Senate is lodged with the rollicking Riddle
berger the Senator from Virginia, who holds
in tue hollow of his hand the political future
OF the three Democratic claimants to seats
Messrs. Lucas and Faulkner, of W. Virginia,
and Mr.. Turpln, of Indiana. Senator Rid
dleberger states that he will endeavor to act
as conscientiously in these controversies as if
he were on the Supreme Bench of the Unit
ed States.
The Republican Senate has more than
enough chairmauships to go around, there
being forty-seven Senate committees to only
thirty-eight Republican Senators, and so it is
likely that tue majority party will very gener-
ously bestow the fine surplus places on their
Democratic brethren. G. AS.